Jana Kramer (who I love for her country music, but she will always and forever be Alex (from One Tree Hill) to me) has a great song called “Love.” Jana sings about still believing in love after heartbreak and though I have heard this song a hundred times the lyrics never lose any power–what a brave thing to do, to believe in something after that thing has been lost and broken.
If you ask most people if they know what love is they will most likely say yes but if you ask them if they believe in love there is a good chance that they will say no. Same thing goes for religion, family, etc. i because in this very broken world in which we live the most precious things (religion, love, family…) are also the most broken things. They are Jesus’ favorite things to give so in turn they are the enemy’s favorite things to destroy. So how brave is it for us to say that despite the broken things we still believe?
..Knowing and believing are two very different things. Everyone can “know” but it takes bravery and strength to believe. So don’t just “know” that the best is yet to come or that the Lord is fighting for you or that whatever it is that you’re needing is going to happen, believe it.
Sometimes after a hard season it is good to just sit down with a journal, a song, a prayer, or whatever special “language” you and Jesus speak to each other with and just declare the things that you still believe in. It does not matter how badly the enemy destroyed them and it does not matter how much the world has distorted them, believe anyway.
Jesus > Enemy | Believing > Knowing
Ramblings: A little of this & A little of that. 